Bio

Scott Collins earned a Bachelors of Music degree in Music Composition from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Multi-Focus Guitar Performance from California Institute of the Arts. His playing on fretted and fretless instruments, draws from a wide range of western and non-western music and he specializes in real-time composition. Currently, he performs with the group KoriSoron.

Scott is a featured baglama (Turkish lute) performer on the Sony Playstation, God of War 2 video game and a soloist on the track “Come Alive” from the RedLynx Trials Evolution game. In addition to numerous live performances, he has toured in the U.S., the U.K, and Germany, performed in the world premier of composer Glenn Branca’s “Hallucination City”, the U.S. premier of Composer Tim Brady’s, “Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks”. In theater, he was the composer and Musical Director for the Siena College production of “Child Soldier” and co-composed and performed the thematically improvised score for the About Productions stage adaptation of Norman Klein’s “Bleeding Through” with Vinny Golia.

As a presenter, Scott has performed and co-lead workshops on improvisation as part of the Imagniary Borders/Imaginarias Fronteras project at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexicali, Mexico and performed and co-lead a workshop on “Structured Improvisation in Film Accompaniment” as part of the Cha’ak’ab Paaxil Festival at the Edificio de Artes Visuales – Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán in Mérida, Mexico.

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Scott specializes in real-time visual scoring has accompanied a number of short silent films and longer films including – Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Broken Blossoms, Faust, The Unholy 3, Phantom of The Opera, and Page of Madness. In 2009, he and Carmina Escobar accompanied Solu (Mia Mikela) in a live sound and visual improvisation as part of Solu’s residency at USC’s Visions and Voices series.

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An active guitar teacher and musical performance coach, Scott is the author of The GuitArchitect’s Guide: series which includes:

The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns

The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Harmonic Combinatorics

The GuitArchitect’s Positional Exploration

The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Chord Scales and

The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Symmetrical Twelve-Tone Patterns

Other published titles include, Scott Collins’ Fretboard Visualization Series – The Minor Pentatonic Scale and 2 books for the Kindle platform, An Indie Musician Wake up Call and Selling It Versus Selling Out.

Well hello there, fellow Berklee Alumni… and nicely decorated, too! Congratulations on all of your achievements. Enjoying your site as well, I’ll come back for sure! [Class of 1999 Boston, B.M. Music Business Management – followed you here from your post on the DiscMakers blog.]